Mobile health treatment support intervention for HIV and tuberculosis in Mozambique: Perspectives of patients and healthcare workers.
José António NhavotoÅke GrönlundGunnar O KleinPublished in: PloS one (2017)
The results suggest that SMS technology for HIV and TB should be used to transmit reminders for appointments, medications, motivational texts, and health education to increase retention in care. Measures must be taken to reduce risks of privacy intrusion, but these are not a main obstacle for scaling up systems of this kind.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv positive
- hiv aids
- hiv infected
- hiv testing
- human immunodeficiency virus
- end stage renal disease
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- hepatitis c virus
- randomized controlled trial
- public health
- men who have sex with men
- ejection fraction
- quality improvement
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- health information
- mental health
- palliative care
- peritoneal dialysis
- emergency department
- prognostic factors
- human health
- pain management
- combination therapy
- affordable care act
- adverse drug